Senior Policy Director Alexandra Bell was a guest on the podcast Things That Go Boom, talking about nuclear arms control.
The pandemic risk of an accidental lab leak of enhanced flu virus: unacceptably high
Lynn Klotz, a Senior Science Fellow at the Center, published an article in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists about the potential risk involved in a lab accident that releases a flu virus. Why consider the risk of lab accident that releases an influenza virus into the community? Because scientists in various countries continue to […]
Summary: FY 2021 Senate National Defense Authorization Bill (S. 4049)
Top Line Funding Totals $740.5 billion: Total funding supported in the bill: $636.4 billion: Department of Defense discretionary base $ 25.9 billion: Department of Energy discretionary base $ 69.0 billion: Overseas Contingency Operations $ 9.1 billion: Defense-related activities outside the bill’s jurisdiction Select Nuclear and Related Weapons Programs A. Ohio Replacement Strategic Submarine (Columbia Class) $2.9 […]
Tensions on the Korean Peninsula underscore the need for new negotiations
By Zach Glass, Policy Intern On June 16, North Korea blew up the Kaesong Liaison Office, which was built in September 2018 to foster inter-Korean dialogue. This quite literal deterioration of Korean relations occurred one week after Pyongyang announced that it had severed all lines of communication with South Korea, which North Korean state media claimed was the result […]
Front and Center: June 20, 2020
LINK BETWEEN NUCLEAR TESTING AND NEW START AGREEMENT News broke last month that in a meeting, senior national security officials discussed conducting an explosive nuclear test at a site in Nevada for the first time since 1992. The test would reportedly be a political move to persuade China to join arms control negotiations with the United […]
